Library access

[mastrmind11 722]

yeah this doesn't line up.  if you don't hav e an emby user, i can't see how you could have actually installed emby server.  is emby server running?  what is the output of

ps aux | grep emby

 

[AlphardvB 0]

First picture is id emby AFTER I installed emby. 
2nd till 5th:

making useraccount in emby with password, add library, go to /media/pi/ and than see blanc

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35 minutes ago, mastrmind11 said:

yeah this doesn't line up.  if you don't hav e an emby user, i can't see how you could have actually installed emby server.  is emby server running?  what is the output of

ps aux | grep emby

 

 

[mark-in-dallas 87]

I was under the impression that you had already installed Emby before following the last instructions that I gave you.  If Emby was not installed when you issued those commands, you will need to go back and add the emby user to the pi group again, with this command.

sudo usermod -a -G pi emby

Then go back into Emby and you should be able to add the library.

Edited September 8, 2020 by mark-in-dallas

[AlphardvB 0]

I did what you said, did a reboot to be sure the settings were saved and than started emby by localhost:8096. Again username and password, than library and again: blanc

[mark-in-dallas 87]

Okay that should have worked, but lets see if you can log in as the emby user and touch anything on the drive by running these commands:

sudo -u emby

cd /media/pi/kids

touch test_file.

Then run ls-l and paste the results here.

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[mark-in-dallas 87]

Sorry, I left out the shell because that did not log you in as the emby user.  Try this instead:

sudo -u emby bash

Now check to make sure that you are logged in as emby@raspberrypi, then do the next commands and post the output.

cd /media/pi/kids

 touch test_2

ls -l

[AlphardvB 0]

Access denied

[mastrmind11 722]

what is the output of

groups emby

 

it also is pretty worthwhile for you to add an ssh server to your pi so you don't have to keep taking pictures of your monitor.....

Edited September 8, 2020 by mastrmind11

[mark-in-dallas 87]

Okay, that's telling you that emby does not have permission to access the hard drive.  Are you sure you did the command:  sudo usermod -a -G pi emby

Lets look at the results for this command:  groups emby

 

Also, if its at all possible please just copy and paste the terminal results into your posts, or use a screen capture program to post snapshots, because its pretty hard to read whats in the images.

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[mark-in-dallas 87]

Perfect.  The emby user is now added to the pi group and you should be good to go.  Now try going back to Emby and adding a library.

If there is still a problem, then lets try these commands again, to see if you can now touch anything on the drive from outside of Emby when logged in as the emby user.

sudo -u emby bash

cd /media/pi/kids

 touch test_2

Edited September 8, 2020 by mark-in-dallas

[AlphardvB 0]

Again access denied

Edited September 8, 2020 by AlphardvB

[mark-in-dallas 87]

The response to the cd  /media/pi/kids directory change has me a little confused.  I don't understand why it is showing:  bash: cd: /media/pi/kids......., but for whatever reason it is not changing to that directory. 

Can you try exiting out of then reopening the terminal and running those commands again? 

I'm sure mastermind11 would know the reason its showing the bash: response and how to get around it, but I'm still pretty new to Linux myself and that one has me scratching my head.We know that emby is now as member of the pi group, and we know that pi has read and write access to the kids drive, so emby should also have access to the drive.  I'm assuming that the reason for the access denied message has something to do with bash, I just don't know what

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8 minutes ago, mark-in-dallas said:

The response to the cd  /media/pi/kids directory change has me a little confused.  I don't understand why it is showing:  bash: cd: /media/pi/kids......., but for whatever reason it is not changing to that directory. 

Can you try exiting out of then reopening the terminal and running those commands again? 

I'm sure mastermind11 would know the reason its showing the bash: response and how to get around it, but I'm still pretty new to Linux myself and that one has me scratching my head.We know that emby is now as member of the pi group, and we know that pi has read and write access to the kids drive, so emby should also have access to the drive.  I'm assuming that the reason for the access denied message has something to do with bash, I just don't know what

Which commands do you want me to run this time?

[mark-in-dallas 87]

11 minutes ago, AlphardvB said:

Which commands do you want me to run this time?

Lets try changing up the order to this:

cd /media/pi/kids

sudo -u emby bash

 touch test_2

Edited September 8, 2020 by mark-in-dallas

[mastrmind11 722]

since we're already doing all the leg work for you, the least you can do is translate wtf these messages are saying.  im patient, but it's getting thin

 

also, set up an ssh server on your pi so we can stop with the screen shots of screens...... seriously

Edited September 8, 2020 by mastrmind11

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1 minute ago, mastrmind11 said:

since we're already doing all the leg work for you, the least you can do is translate wtf these messages are saying.  im patient, but it's getting thin

Toegang geweigerd means access denied. That’s why I wrote that down above the picture  

and Im sorry that youre doing al the stuff but what the internet says everywhere doesnt work unfortunatly. thats why i asked you guys for help

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19 minutes ago, mark-in-dallas said:

Lets try changing up the order to this:

cd /media/pi/kids

sudo -u emby bash

 touch test_2

That works

[mark-in-dallas 87]

You can install openssh on your raspberry box, then install Putty on the machine you are using to access this forum and then you can access the raspberry terminal from that computer.

Instead of running the commands that I gave you, you can also just try adding the library in Emby, because we have verified that the emby user should now have access to the hard drive.

Edited September 8, 2020 by mark-in-dallas

[mark-in-dallas 87]

1 minute ago, AlphardvB said:

That works

Good, now try adding the library in Emby.

[mastrmind11 722]

delete.  apparently permissions are set now, somehow.

Edited September 8, 2020 by mastrmind11

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5 minutes ago, mark-in-dallas said:

Good, now try adding the library in Emby.

And still it remains blanc. I really cannot believe this. Do I use the wrong OS?

[mark-in-dallas 87]

I don't think it has anything to do with the OS.  Would you mind creating a temporary account in Emby for me with admin privileges so I can log in and take a look?  If that's okay with you PM me the I.P address and username/password and I'll see if I can get it figured out for you.